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Liquid Metal Soft Machines

Principles and Applications. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering

By (author) Jing Liu, Lei Sheng, Zhi-Zhu He
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Published: 27th Sep 2018
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 22mm
Weight: 719g
ISBN-10: 9811327084
ISBN-13: 9789811327087
Barcode No: 9789811327087
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Synopsis
This book discusses the core principles and practical applications of a brand new machine category: liquid-metal soft machines and motors. After a brief introduction on the conventional soft robot and its allied materials, it presents the new conceptual liquid-metal machine, which revolutionizes existing rigid robots, both large and small. It outlines the typical features of the soft liquid-metal materials and describes the various transformation capabilities, mergence of separate metal droplets, self-rotation and planar locomotion of liquid-metal objects under external or internal mechanism. Further, it introduces a series of unusual phenomena discovered while developing the shape changeable smart soft machine and interprets the related mechanisms regarding the effects of the shape, size, voltage, orientation and geometries of the external fields to control the liquid-metal transformers. Moreover, the book illustrates typical strategies to construct a group of different advanced functional liquid-metal soft machines, since such machines or robots are hard to fabricate using rigid-metal or conventional materials. With highly significant fundamental and practical findings, this book is intended for researchers interested in establishing a general method for making future smart soft machine and accompanying robots.

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